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Saturday, 17 April 2010 10:45 |
 Liberal Democrat Bridget Fox joined the demonstrators outside Parliament when they rushed through the "Digital Economy Bill" and now LD Prime Minister candidate Nick Clegg has promised to repeal the damned thing. "We did our best to prevent the Digital Economy Bill being rushed through at the last moment. It badly needed more debate and amendment, and we are extremely worried that it will now lead to completely innocent people having their internet connections cut off. It was far too heavily weighted in favour of the big corporations and those who are worried about too much information becoming available. It badly needs to be repealed, and the issues revisited." http://bit.ly/cZYtlh . Labour MPs Tom Watson and John Grogan also joined the demonstration. (eweek) The polls say Liberals and Labour will likely form a coalition government, so perhaps this farce can be reversed.
TalkTalk's Charlie Dunstone is now a hero to consumers for taking a strong stand. “Unless we are served with a court order we will never surrender a customer’s details to rightsholders. We are the only major ISP to have taken this stance and we will maintain it. If we are instructed to disconnect an account due to alleged copyright infringement we will refuse to do so and tell the rightsholders we’ll see them in court.” Dunstone is #2 to BT and I'm sure his customers appreciate the stand.
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